Home Office PowerPoint Presentation Penetrates Homeland Security

We've reported on some fantastic government PowerPoint presentations in the past. Who can forget the PowerPoint slides that helped to expel Russian diplomats? Or the government by PowerPoint stance taken by Prime Minister Modi in India, let alone the NSA PowerPoint presentation that exposed the PRISM programme? So we were delighted to see this week's exposure of the latest fantastical Home Office PowerPoint presentation by Guido Fawkes. And, yes, it is fantastical.

Apparently it's a presentation that intends to influence staff behaviours in the office and off-site among Home Office counter-terrorism people. Crikey! However, this Home Office PowerPoint presentation focuses entirely on gender and the apparent contradictions we face at work. And it's all done in ten or so slides.

Critically the presentation, for the Homeland Security Group in the Home Office, directs itself at Best Practice. It's probably at this stage that the audience wishes it was elsewhere. Because this is prescriptive stuff. Altogether it does appear to have been prepared by an organisation other than the Home Office. Stonewall, perhaps? who knows. Did the creator of the presentation actually give this presentation or simply send an email to all staff? Because if there was an actual presentation event or two, then they were surely stultifying.

Tedious PowerPoint Presentation Materials

Not least because the presentation material is the standard fare that we can expect from a government department prepared to bore for Britain. So, it's an odd mix of bullet point lists, loads of text, dreadful graphics, awful graphs and standard PowerPoint templates. Really, does the UK Government still turn out such mediocre material for staff training? Apparently so.

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